Reposted by June Fire 🔥jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15hfeels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 883418402
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 16hOn the one hand, it’s comforting to know that Americans aren’t uniquely stupid, voters everywhere have skulls filled with mush and worms. On the other hand, global fascism is probably not an ideal state of affairs. 412453350
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 15hWhy are we not allowed to judge the character of the voters who want this? 431325285
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 17hmajor democracies electing far-right populist governments 111436258
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18hYes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve 404710625
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You can basically break this down into "elections Donald Trump ran in" and "all other elections." For whatever reason, ppl on here keep ptsding themselves (and political news media keeps wishcasting) into thinking that a non-Trump election is going to act like a Trump one 1254859
Reposted by June Fire 🔥David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026I'm not good at math, is $800 million a lot?electrek.coFedEx believes $300M electric truck spend will save them $800M in dieselIn a record-setting commercial truck deal, international shipping giant FedEx has placed an order for 2,000 all-electric box trucks from... 871718340
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Now he’s gone too far www.tpr.org/government-p...tpr.orgTrump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurantsThe 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months. 641703384
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Joey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending 502840770
June Fire 🔥 @junefire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It’s a good thing the admin killed the EV incentives, because without gas cars independents wouldn’t know who to vote for. /s 010
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026GS: Gasoline Prices and the Democratic Generic Ballot Have Moved Together This Year 26215
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026These things are connected. Changing jobs (or credibly threatening to do so) is one of the best ways to secure a wage increase. A low-turnover job market isn't just bad for people looking to get jobs; it's bad for existing workers too. 17620
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New York City has recorded the fewest murders through September since before 1960, Baltimore since 1962, Philadelphia and Detroit since 1964, Oakland since 1967, and New Orleans since 1969. 37729
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Bill McBride @calculatedrisk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The economy has only added 496 thousand jobs over the last year. 1237
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Economist analysis of more than 3,000 US counties finds that in reliably GOP counties, annual deaths now exceed births by 0.4 per 1k residents, while in reliably Democratic counties, births exceed deaths by 2.8 per 1k. Population growth in the GOP counties is largely driven by internal migration.economist.comIn MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being bornOur analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration 47769227
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not only are the flat earthers wrong, they are getting wronger by the day. 636171
Reposted by June Fire 🔥economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The idea that you have to watch uncensored snuff films on repeat to understand what is happening and is virtuous is one of the most destructive things going on right now. It doesn't actually teach them anything and actively ruins their mental health. 317910
Reposted by June Fire 🔥🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Did staying on X the everything site make people worse, or did people who were already worse stay there 2835532
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026Here’s the monthly data with a 12-month trailing average, so we don’t “look ahead” of the time series. We can see that visits from Canada are substantially down. Like, a *lot*. And if we looked at the French series by itself we’d see something too. But it’s not on the scale of Covid. Yet. 1129158
June Fire 🔥 @junefire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We don’t have to imagine, Silicon Valley keeps reinventing mass transit from first principles. 010
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist 26050821106
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker 351959401
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/10/2026September 2026 was the warmest September on record for the Contiguous U.S. since 1895 according to PRISM climate data. 🔥🔥🔥 418781
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 03/12/2025This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves 19474891753
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026State of the US Economy: Poor: 44% Fair: 31% Good: 19% Excellent: 3% YouGov / Sept 28, 2026 816435
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here. 3242471133
Reposted by June Fire 🔥warrior rabbit @warriorrabbit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Virginia is for lovers… of cats These colony cats need food. Regustered charity, tax deductible. Can’t give? Please share the post with others. #Virginia #cats #colonycats 35230
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out. 5541341127
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI 952518669
Reposted by June Fire 🔥rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026the plainly stated thesis of this article is that democratic voters disproportionate want and would benefit from a policy proposed by the party, and therefore they should not pursue that policy. apart from being tautological this is bizarre. 860043
Reposted by June Fire 🔥jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026this is legitimately very funny 83125111895
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026if i were a foreign government looking for an edge, id probably try to convince america that climate change is woke bull shit and combustion engines are for real men with penises, all while also convincing them to invest every dollar in bull shit tech while we take the lead on green energy 9638105
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“USDOT said the regulation will reduce manufacturers' average cost per vehicle to comply by $1,289 but increase fuel costs by more than $1,600 over the life of the vehicles.” 🤌🤌🤌 www.reuters.com/business/aut...reuters.comUS finalizes new lower fuel economy standards in boost for gas-powered vehiclesThe U.S. Transportation Department on Monday finalized sharply lower vehicle fuel economy standards, President Donald Trump's latest effort to encourage sales of gasoline-powered vehicles and reverse... 1513664
Reposted by June Fire 🔥George Pearkes @peark.es · 28/09/2026Table stakes for the next Dem President should be tearing up every single 287(g) and throwing them in the trash. 541372
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“From Bordeaux to Paris, via Rennes in Brittany and Die in the southeast, thousands – 120,000, according to organizers – turned out ‘for the climate, for life, for peace, for social justice.’” 4939531107
Reposted by June Fire 🔥The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026They are playing in our faces 409125855969
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A new research paper out of UBC examined the effect of purchase rebates (tiered by income) on ebike adoption, and found that ebike adopters reduced their travel costs by 12% and increased their physical activity by 14% with other benefits being enjoyment and general wellbeing.sciencedirect.com 3489
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”houstonchronicle.comTexas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable. 352251768
Reposted by June Fire 🔥mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026once again the actual "story" behind Tilly Norwood is how the company's PR firm continues to get these stories placed in ostensibly legit outlets over and over despite zero demonstration of the supposed phenomenon being written about ("AI movie star Tilly Norwood") being real 292449510
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins 814153955
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter. HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO. Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government. Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth. 472695775
Reposted by June Fire 🔥lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought 784368854
Reposted by June Fire 🔥Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The punchline about Trump illegally using taxpayer money to fund political ads is that making the midterms about the president with historically bad approval ratings is a disaster for the Republican Party 3739101
